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Single-player games like My Drug Cartel

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to My Drug Cartel, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Black Market INC. — Steam game cover

    Black Market INC.

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Billion Egg Farm — Steam game cover

    Billion Egg Farm

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.

    2026SimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wanderers' Outpost — Steam game cover

    Wanderers' Outpost

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    A colony sim where dungeons sprout from the ground like mushrooms, but you're not the hero. You sell shovels to adventurers, send them to almost certain death, tax whatever loot they bring back, patch them up, then happily charge them for everything they need to do it all over again.

    2026SimulationEarly Access15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sheepping — Steam game cover

    Sheepping

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Sheepping is a relaxing farm simulator in which you take care of your sheep, shear fluffy wool, spin it into yarn, and weave it into cozy clothing.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fill the Sky — Steam game cover

    Fill the Sky

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

    2027StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Necromancer's Workshop — Steam game cover

    Necromancer's Workshop

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Biofactory — Steam game cover

    Biofactory

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

    2027StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
  8. 8
    Factory Town 2: Paradise — Steam game cover

    Factory Town 2: Paradise

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation22.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
  10. 10
    Stardew Valley — Steam game cover

    Stardew Valley

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cartel Simulator — Steam game cover

    Cartel Simulator

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    Step into the shoes of a young man in a fictional 1980s Latin America. Embrace your destiny navigating a world fraught with drugs, violence, and bloodshed.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie10.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →